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Oleh:

Campbell, Bernadette ; ORWIN, ROBERT G. ; CAMPBELL, KEVIN ; KRUPSKI, ANTOINETTE

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: American Journal of Evaluation vol. 25 no. 4 (Dec. 2004), page 409–441.
Topik: Benefits Termination; Labor Force Participation and Crime; Logic of Causal Inference; Target Population; Comparison Group; Measures; Effect Estimation Models; Initial piecewise model; Revisedpiecewise model; Outcome Distribution Plots; Hypothesis Test; Non-comparability of Comparison Group; Differential Mortality; Measurement Coverage; Arrests Increase; Employment Decrease Poverty; Initial Predictions; Basic Findings
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The passage of the Contract with America Advancement Act terminated the Social Security Administration’s Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits for persons diagnosed with drug or alcohol addiction (also known as DA&A recipients), effective January 1, 1997. From an evaluation standpoint, the law created the opportunity for a “natural” experiment, specifically, an interrupted time series quasi-experiment. Through the availability of person-level data on an entire state population, the present study combines the design tradition of interrupted time series with the analytic tradition of growth curve modeling to create an “enriched” interrupted time series

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